On today’s show we speak with Rebecca Merton of Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC) and Lourdes Barraza, whose husband is currently detained at West County Detention Facility in Richmond, California about dismal conditions reported by people under ICE detention. We end with an hour-long conversation with Alex Vitale, professor and coordinator of the … Continued
MLK’s Radical Final Years: Civil Rights Leader Was Isolated After Taking On Capitalism & Vietnam War.
As Attorney General Jeff Sessions is questioned by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, we’ll turn to our expert Marcy Wheeler, an independent journalist who has been following the story, about what Mueller’s goal might be as he leads up to questioning Trump himself. Then we’ll examine the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court’s decision on gerrymandered districts in … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: A special report from Honduras on the ongoing steal of the presidential election there. Well also feature a report back on the imprisonment of Honduran-based longtime peoples activist, Edwin Espinal, now being held on a military base. And well speak to former high-level CIA analyst Ray McGovern about the significance of the … Continued
We speak with Tim Redmond of 48 Hills about the ousting of London Breed to make room for a caretaker mayor to run SF. Later REN THE VINYL ARCHAEOLOGIST, the curator of True Skool stops by to discuss upcoming events in the bay area.
The East Bay indie rock band Felsen is celebrating the release of its fifth album, Blood Orange Moon, with a show at the Brick & Mortar Music Hall in San Francisco on Friday, February 2, at 9 p.m. KPFA listeners get a sneak preview with a live in-studio concert on “The Hear and Now,” hosted … Continued
Crime is way down, and law and order advocates argue that’s the result of expanded policing and other punitive measures. But sociologist Alex Vitale says there’s no evidence that’s true. He discusses how expanded policing is the flip side of neoliberal economic austerity and the slashing of social services. Resources: Alex Vitale, The End of … Continued
While the Democratic Party is preparing reforms to the presidential nomination process, a new report has been published, named “Autopsy: The Democratic Party in Crisis”. On today’s show, we comment this crisis of the Democratic Party with Karen Bernal, Chair of the California Democratic Party Progressive Caucus, and Margarita Lacabe, member of the Alameda Democratic Central Committee California.
On today’s show, we discuss how reproductive rights are faring under the Trump administration. We speak with Imani Gandy, Senior Legal Analyst at Rewire, reproductive justice activist, and host of Rewire’s podcast Boom Lawyered and Regina Campuzano of the Bay Area Reproductive Justice coalition, which is organizing the Rally for Reproductive Justice this Saturday in San … Continued
Fantasy Novelist Ursula Le Guin, Who Explored Resistance & Change, Dies at Age 88; “Strong Island”: Trans Filmmaker Yance Ford Searches for Justice After His Brother’s Racist Murder; Alabama’s Hale County is Subject of Poetic Documentary on Blackness and Everyday Life in the Black Belt.
